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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Sew Grateful: Pushing Daisies Sew Along

Today in the Sew Grateful week is the day to provide resources, tutorials, patterns, etc. I was actually hoping to provide a pattern for you guys of my 1920s dress (and if you're interested in testing the pattern - let me know!), but I got a little burned out designing and creating the dress that just won't ever be good enough! Next week I'll finish it, maybe. Probably not.

I'm happy to link you guys to my sewing page on Pinterest (click here!) where I do have free patterns and tutorials and links to tips and tricks on everything from working with lace to maintaining your machine.

But I want to offer something more for Sew Grateful, and it's for an entirely selfish reason.

Have you ever seen Pushing Daisies? It's one of my favorite shows, and if you've seen it, I'm sure it's one of your favorite shows. It was killed by the writer's strike of '08, so there's only 2 seasons to re-watch over and over again.

Why should you care?

Because I want to host a sew along! I don't know if I have enough followers to do that and I usually have a difficult time remembering to take pictures and explain my process, but I'm putting this up anyway and we'll see how it goes. Perhaps it will just be me by my lonesome, but I'll have a kick-ass dress at the end of it so who cares?

This is Chuck:

Chuck wears pretty dresses.

And pretty under things as well.

I think my favorite part of Chuck's outfits are that she's wearing them to blend in, not stand out.

Okay, hopefully now you understand just part of my obsession with this show. Of all the dresses, I've been coveting the red lace dress for the longest, and I think that's the dress I'm going to focus on for this sew along. (Perhaps the lingerie will be next?)

Looking through my patterns, I think a combination of Vogue 9810 version C and the skirt from Butterick B5708 will be the closest fit.

I haven't yet made the Vogue pattern, so I'm not sure if there will be any fitting issues. Obviously, we'll have to make some alterations, most noticeably shortening the sleeves, though that shouldn't be difficult. I've made the Butterick pattern previously and it's very easy to work with. The gathered skirt sans petticoat would be perfect for this dress.

So what do you think? Are you in? I'm happy to make this my first sew along if others are interested, though I'll probably make it purple or navy instead of red. I've also secretly thinking about buying white lace and dying it in tea for a cool vintage/sepia effect!

I love the show pushing daisies and was turned on to it by a picture of Chuck. I just found out last week that there was a second season (and watched it all in two days, oops). I need to go back through both seasons and get pictures of my favorite outfits Sadly I am not prepared to do the sew along with you right now. But I hope that you get a lot of participation so that I can look through it and maybe do it later.

I have been a great fan of Pushing Daisies as well. It would have been great if there had been more seasons, but the two they made are absolute gems, so maybe they stopped at a high and that's not such a bad thing either.I will follow your sew-along and who knows, maybe I'll make myself a Chuck-dress in the (near) future...

Wow, this is SUCH a great idea!! I loved this show, and Chuck's dresses were the reason I started sewing in the first place! I recreaed one of them recently... I will send you a picture somehow, but maybe a bit later, when I see some other beautiful creations... I'm so excited for this sewalong!!!!

I loved Pushing Daisies, it had such a great look to it, and Anna Friel is always lovely. I just dropped by to say you won my suitcase giveaway! Can you email me at minnadoshouse@gmail.com with your postal address and I will get the parcel sent!

Thanks so much for thinking of this. I haven't seen the show in years, and I'm really enjoying revisiting the episodes. When the show was first on, I wasn't one to notice fashion at all--now it's like a wonderland!! Anna Friel and Kristin Chenoweth are heaven.